Messages - Heiermann

I successfully shot a Parallella Board on Kickstarter last year. Now I am awaiting this "Supercomputer on a creditcard" to be delivered.Within this year they want to get the Board with 90 GFLOPs ready to ship for about $299.This would be enough power for a whole LinuxMCE - Center on a creditcard-size - device.Could this bright future be reason to keep on porting LinMCE to ARM ?

you are totally right! I honestly believe that you are doing a great job, and I thank you for that.But I think that you are not the only one with interest in developing better solutions for lmce.When I look at the "local dealers and custom installers" - list for LinuxMCE on the FIIRE-Website (for example), I allready see companies in many european countries. The solution I suggested (FS20) is allready available in many european countries.Now I am looking for a sponsor to get some cash for that work.

while looking for a Z-Wave - solution I found out, that Merten offers a product-line called "Connect" for 220V/50Hz(http://www.voltus.de/schalterprogramme/merten/funksystem-connect/)Since this is quite expensive, I started looking for a cheaper system. I found the FS20 - Protokoll, that is allready supported by linux (http://fhz4linux.info/tiki-index.php)There is tons of Hardware available for the FS20 - Protokoll (way more than for the PLCBUS). I would like to have a device-template for FS20 in the next linuxmce-release.

I would recommend to set up two virtual Machines using Xen.Then you can switch between your Mac and the Linux-Ubuntu serving LinuxMCE.I have no experience with MacOS. But here Xen works great with WinXP and Ubuntu on my Vaio Notebook.

but it will be very interesting to see if the kernel image is good enough to recognize all the hardware.

Hi,I really do not believe that there is a boot-image for the DBox-2 included in LMCE.Currently I am running my DBox with a Yadi-Imgage (www.yadi.org). I have a harddisk built in, so the image needs to support IDE-Drives. Since I can remote-control the DBox via Ethernet, it would be a great solution if I could use the DBox to record MPEG-2 and stream TV to the Media-Director.

you can only setup DBox 2 as a media director. to do this, you have to have option for network boot and a network card.

Hi,the DBox has a built-in Network-Adapter. And running with Neutrino there is a built-in Bootoption via Network. The first thing the DBox does is sending a RARP-Request to get an IP-Adress. Next the DBOX sends an BootP-Request to connect to a Boot-Server.If there is a Boot-File, the DBox can load it via tftp.Is there a Boot-File for the DBox-Media-Director available ?